[sdiy] SMD Tempco Plea for Help

[Tim Ressel]

Richard,

Yep, they're small. How about soldering them and then
superglue to the transistor?

--Tim Ressel

--- metamatic at webtv.net wrote:
>  Hello everyone,
> 
>  I ordered some of the Panasonic 805 surface mount
> tempco from Digi-Key,
> and finally received them today. For just over $21,
> I bought 50 1K
> 3300ppm tempcos. I had grand dreams of tempcoing
> every expo converter
> I've ever built. Forget just VCOs, I'm tempcoing
> filters, VCAs,
> everything!
> 
> So I open the package, and...
> 
>  Sweet merciful crap, these things are small!
> 
>  I remember a couple of list members mentioning that
> they've used the
> SMD tempcos, affixing them to 2SC1583s and what have
> you. What type of
> adhesive would be best to stick them on the
> transistor pair?
> Cyanoacrylate emits some nasty fumes when heated
> (I've learned this the
> hard way), so I've just about ruled that out. I'm
> thinking I might use
> wire-wrapping wire to solder to the terminals on the
> tempco... good
> idea? Better suggestions?
> 
>  Thanks for any suggestions!
> 
> Richard Hess
> 
> metamatic at webtv.net
> 


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